AMES, Iowa â€“ The Iowa State University Athletics Department announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the University of Northern Iowa to play football games seven times over the next 11 years.

UNI will play in Ames during the 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023 seasons. The Panthers last played in Ames during the 2011 season.

â€œWe are excited to extend our contract with UNI because our games have been some of the best attended contests in Jack Trice Stadium history,â€ said Iowa State Athletics Director Jamie Pollard. â€œOur fans have enjoyed this intrastate series.â€

Iowa State and UNI have met 27 times since the two schools first faced one another in 1899. Iowa State leads the series, 20-4-3, with the Cyclones winning seven of the last eight meetings.

The Western Ill game is a perfect example of why we don't need to schedule UNI that much. 4th highest attended game for WIU? We don't need the purple hawks to sell out. Id rather have the easy win over a no name FCS team

I guess ISU is taking the approach of showering UNI with kindness. The way Farley runs his mouth against ISU, ISU probably shouldn't give UNI the time of day....let them fund their ailing AD on someone else's dime.

The better we get as a program, the less insecure I am about a potential loss to them. I say bring them in and give us their best shot. Lord knows that even in their good years UNI and UI are easier than our conference slate. No need for too many cream puffs, we need tested early and hard.

I hate this series so, so much. Why do we do this? We need cream puffs. UNI comes at ISU/Iowa/any FBS school with guns blazing and starting line-up talent that isn't that subpar.

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I don't really mind that they come at us guns blazing. I would just rather see us play someone else every once in awhile. Especially since we have the round robin in conference. So essentially this means we play the same schedule every other year with the exception of one opponent. On the opposite years we play the same schedule with the exception of two opponents.

I hate this series so, so much. Why do we do this? We need cream puffs. UNI comes at ISU/Iowa/any FBS school with guns blazing and starting line-up talent that isn't that subpar.

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Agreed. We are allowed by the NCAA to take advantage of one free cream puff a year... and instead of doing that- when we already will almost always have a top 10-20 schedule just because of playing the 9 game big 12 schedule and iowa- we schedule one of the best FCS programs out there that has a history of not being a cream puff. I know there's some here that wouldnt be happy with ISU's schedule until we're playing all 10 of the top 10, but there's something damn fun about a long tailgating day followed by a stress-free, easy win.

We can pay UNI the same as WIU to come in and get their *** handed to them (we should expect this from now on under CPR). The difference is UNI actually brings fans that pay for tickets and concessions.

I don't really mind that they come at us guns blazing. I would just rather see us play someone else every once in awhile. Especially since we have the round robin in conference. So essentially this means we play the same schedule every other year with the exception of one opponent. On the opposite years we play the same schedule with the exception of two opponents.

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Agreed with this as well. We've got no variety at all in our scheduling now.

I guess ISU is taking the approach of showering UNI with kindness. The way Farley runs his mouth against ISU, ISU probably shouldn't give UNI the time of day....let them fund their ailing AD on someone else's dime.

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Maybe we should just pound purple iowa's *** instead of complaining about playing them.